Book Suggestions

Okay ehm… 5-6th graders. What kind of camp is it? Any particular theme or whatnot?

Personally, when I was that age I remember reading a lot of ghost novels *laughs* I know, youd never imagine right? *snort, giggle*

A couple titles I remember reading were “Summer of my German Soldier”, but it’s quite sad. “Wait till helen comes” Which is a ghost story.

Charlottes Web, Secret Garden, Shiloh, Where the Red Fern Grows, Sarah Plain and Tall, the Poetry of Shel Silverstein is fun, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, The Outsiders, The Giver…. all books that I remember loving when I was younger.
My sister RAVED about Out of the Dust.
My Brother STILL has the whole Mariel of Redwall series, by Brian Jacques on his shelf (About the only books he has other than Maxim, being 19 years old).

Though I don’t know how many are offered on tape so I thought I’d give a long list *shrug*

*tilts* Tuck Everlasting…wasn’t that the movie about the family of immortals and she falls in love with him, and finds out he’s immortal because his family drank from this spring in a tree or something and then she ends up dying and he sees her grave by the tree when he comes back…being…all immortal and stuff?

Thank you, both for the suggestions! 🙂 It’s a church camp, and last year I brought some *award winners* from when I was a kid . . . well, some of the things were too yucky for the girls. I was thinking, Island of the Blue Dolphin-type stuff; strong female character; survival; autonomy. But when the characters ended up gutting birds, etc., the girls lost interest. Your suggestions are exactly what I was looking for.

I’ll be taking those lists to the library – almost everything is on-tape any more.

“The 5 People You Meet in Heaven” is great. “Speak” is a good book too. It’s for a teenage audience *like me* but you still might be interested.

Oh gosh, Drain. My buddy just had me watch the 5 people you meet in heaven movie. Talk about tearing your guts out. He says the book was better (but when isn’t it, eh?) but really… oh my gosh. My mother actually cried through nearly the whole movie. Then end just stabbed me in the face and twisted the blade.

Funny about classics, Tom…I find most of them make me sick to my stomach. Point in case…Mark Twain is -garbage-. *glare*

*grins* A man after my own heart, heh.

Alchemist is an amazing book. Just…amazing, I thought at least. Then again, it really depends on what kind of person you are.

For example, my roomie Addy’s mother read it. She’s a CPA CIA accountant. Very republican, right wing, strict, prudeish, ocd, not spiritual in the least…and she actually openly taunts and makes fun of the book.

While on the other hand, there’s Addy and I–very open minded, very spiritual, very into thinking outside of the box and looking at new ideas and concepts, art whores and such and we just adore it. Even if you don’t swallow their concepts of the universe, it’s still SUCH a feel good book.